{"id":6983,"date":"2009-04-21T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/04\/one-gets-the-sense-that-newts-catholic-formation-is-lacking\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:05:05","slug":"one-gets-the-sense-that-newts-catholic-formation-is-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/04\/one-gets-the-sense-that-newts-catholic-formation-is-lacking.html","title":{"rendered":"One gets the sense that Newt&#8217;s Catholic formation is lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Brand new Catholic Newt Gingrich is off to a great start utilizing his new ecclesial home as a base for power politickin\u2019 and culture war positioning, sez the guy who dumped his first wife while she was in the hospital reoovering from cancer (so he could immediately marry his girlfriend\u2013the one he later dumped for new girlfriend #3):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2009\/04\/newt-defends-trad-marriage-mak.html#more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Democratic Party has been the active instrument of breaking down traditional marriage.\u201d<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Newt: the initials STFU were made just for you.<\/p>\n<p>For your penance, try reading St. Paul\u2019s advice to Timothy, which says of new bishops (and others who would presume to pontificate, \u201cHe must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil\u201d (2 Timothy 3:6).  Somewhat more appropriate for a new convert with your track record than, \u201cThe problem is my political opponents\u201d would be something more like \u201cI am the chief of sinners.\u201d  If you want to place blame for the destruction of the family, try the mirror, dude.  Dems have huge problems, but you are not the Messenger.  Get some humility.  Your reception into the Church was not the moment when God gratefully accepted your willingness to trust him.  It\u2019s the moment when (in theory at least) you became a disciple of Jesus Christ and said, \u201cHave mercy on me, a sinner!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brand new Catholic Newt Gingrich is off to a great start utilizing his new ecclesial home as a base for power politickin\u2019 and culture war positioning, sez the guy who dumped his first wife while she was in the hospital reoovering from cancer (so he could immediately marry his girlfriend\u2013the one he later dumped for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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